INTRODUCING NATURAL OLIVE
For those that read this and are blessed with natural olive skin, you might be wondering where you fall on the fake tan scale. Typically, you may not feel as though you’d benefit from fake tan, but thanks to our gorgeous face mist and body mousses that include illuminators, it’ll help to brighten your skin and add radiance like nothing else.
Also helping to liven up ashy coloured skin, our products will give your skin a deep radiant glow that only improves your already gorgeous skin. With our products it’s not about darkening your natural colour, but instead it’s all about brightening your skin and boosting its natural beauty.
At Amanda Harrington London we’re here to get you ready for those summer months ahead, no matter your skin tone. We don’t just want to give you a beautiful natural tan, but we want to look after your skin too! That’s why you’ll find our three-step process involves lots of love and attention given to your skin before, during and after application
We want you to feel as stunning as you look all year round, so why wait any longer to get a dream tan?
How to Remove Fake Tan from Your Hands
Fake tan has come a long way in the past 20 years. We have said goodbye to the ‘biscuit’ smell that was historically associated with the beauty product. And you can now get a faux glow at home that suits your natural skin tone, rather than looking like a deep shade of terracotta. However, is that all worth it if your orange palms and streaking knuckles are giving your faux bronze away to your co-workers?
The reality is, getting the perfectly fake tanned hand is a tricky one. However, we have all the tips you need on removing unwanted tan from your hands, as well as preventing them from going orange and patchy in the first place. You deserve a natural-looking, streak-free all-over bronzed glow, and we want to tell you how to get it!
What Am I Doing Wrong?
Are you ready to never have a fake tan disaster on your hands again? Before we tell you how to remove the fake tan, let’s take our minds back to what has potentially got us into this mess. There is a knack to perfecting a streak-free tanned hand at home and applying mousse with a tanning mitt straight to the knuckles is definitely not it.
1. Using Too Much
You don’t want to use one pump of mousse per hand, our hands naturally absorb tan a lot easier than other parts of our body, so this will cause your hands to overdevelop and look darker than the rest of you.
2. Applying Tan in A Rush
People often wait till the end of their tanning routine to fake tan their hands, and therefore do them in a rush. Save an extra 10 minutes or so at the end of your application to dedicate to your hands. Slow and steady wins the fake tanning race.
3. Using the Wrong Tools
The problem we have historically had with achieving perfect fake-tanned hands at home is that we have been applying it with a tanning mitt. It’s time to bin the mitt and say hello to the tanning brush, you’ll never have to remove fake tan from your palms ever again!
How Do I Remove the Tan?
Once you’ve established what it is you’re doing wrong, you can be rest assured you’ll never have a problem with fake tanning your hands again! But here are a ‘handful’ of remedies to choose from that will remove any unwanted patchiness whilst keeping the rest of your fake tan looking great.
1. Use Bath Oil
Fill a basin with warm water and put a few drops of bath oil into it. Let your hands soak in there for up to 10 minutes and then gently scrub your hands with a loofah, you will see the tan lift away almost instantly!
2. Use Glycolic Acid
Glycolic Acid on the skin naturally causes DHA (fake tans active ingredient) to separate on the skin and therefore lifts quicker. If you have woken up in the morning with an unwanted orange hue on your palms, use a face pad infused with Glycolic Acid on your hands and the tan will instantly come off and look a lot lighter.
3. Use Lemon Juice
An old wives’ tale that does have some substance to it. Squeeze some lemon juice into a bowl of warm water and take a soak for around 30-60 minutes. Then take a warm, damp towel and gently rub over the hands. The heat combined with the lemon juice will cause the tan to fade and appear streak-free almost instantaneously!